← Fame through time1500-1599
The 16th century
Whose working lives fell in the 16th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 16th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Paracelsus22 decades - 2
Huldrych Zwingli9 decades - 3
Conrad Gessner1 decades - 4
Carlo Maderno22 decades - 5
Heinrich Bullinger22 decades - 6
Jost Bürgi0 decades - 7
Fausto Sozzini10 decades - 8Felix Manz0 decades
- 9
Gaspard Bauhin21 decades - 10
Ambrosius Holbein13 decades - 11
Conrad Grebel7 decades - 12
Thomas Erastus0 decades - 13
Aegidius Tschudi0 decades - 14
Heinrich Glarean5 decades - 15
Joachim Vadian19 decades - 16
Urs Graf seniornot measured- - 17
Pierre Viret22 decades - 18
Niklaus Manuel18 decades - 19
Matthäus Schiner0 decades - 20
Johann Bauhin0 decades - 21George Blaurock0 decades
- 22
Cristoforo Solari21 decades - 23
Felix Platter19 decades - 24
Hans Asper0 decades - 25
Theodor Zwinger0 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.